Theodore William Chaundy (19 January 1889 – 14 April 1966) was an

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who introduced Burchnall–Chaundy theory. Chaundy was born to widowed businessman John Chaundy and his second wife Sarah Pates in their shop-cum-home at 49 Broad Street in

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. John had eight children, one of whom died as a toddler, with his late first wife and died barely a year after Chaundy was born. The Chaundy home along Broad Street has since been demolished. Chaundy attended Oxford High School for Boys and read mathematics at

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on a scholarship. In 1912 he became a lecturer at Oxford and later named a Fellow of

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. He married Hilda Weston Dott (1890–1986) in 1920. They had five children and thirteen grandchildren.

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Papers of Theodore William Chaundy at the National ArchivesArchive of Theodore William Chaundy at the Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
;Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Chaundy, Theodore William 1889 births 1966 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford English mathematicians Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford